Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing streams of commerce have worn many a deep and rugged chasm. These great canons--conduits, in fact, for the leaping volume of an ever-increasing prosperity--cross each other with a sort of systematic rectangularity, and in deference to the practical directness of local requirements they are in general called simply--streets. Each of these canons is closed in by a long frontage of towering cliffs, and these soaring walls of brick and limestone and granite rise higher and higher with …
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